U.K. intell. didn't check Iraq sources well - Butler

EmilyChurch

LONDON (CBS.MW) -- A report by a former British cabinet minister into the pre-Iraq war intelligence on weapons said that the dossier the government used to justify the Iraq war had taken to the "outer limits" the intelligence available, according to Sky News. The report also said that British MI6 intelligence service did not check its sources well enough, according to the BBC. The review was published after a five month investigation by former Cabinet secretary Robin Butler. Prime Minister Tony Blair has come under intense pressure by critics of the war and as no weapons of mass destruction have been found. Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said in an interview with the BBC on Wednesday that the program to contain weapons under Saddam Hussein had not been working. Saddam "was capable of doing more harm. He had programmes to develop his capabilities," he said.

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